Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)